These stations are strictly military in nature. The civilian communications relays were generally located along known space lanes and are suspected to have been destroyed in the opening hours of Warday. The Colonial Navy operated twenty-two of these relay stations that were strategically placed between the colonies to decrease communication times. However, nearly half of them were constructed in deep space to clean and boost signals to ships on deployments far from their home ports. Since these stations maintained their relative positions to the colonies via the CNP, they have since been taken over for use by the Cylons to facilitate their own communications. Anything processed through these stations can assumed to be compromised by Cylon forces.
Each station has six Fighter Defense Stations around it, one on each end of its axis.